Cemetery

Resources are listed in alphabetical order. More information can always be found by using our website search bar, or contacting a member of our staff.

Articles

A small selection of Pages from our Past articles written by Bill Kemp (Staff-we have the opportunity to add descriptions for resources here, so if there is one you think definitely needs a description please let me know)

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Poor Farm home to society’s friendless and forlorn

“Be careful or you'll end up at the poor farm” was a popular admonition well in the mid-20...

Article

Biographies

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Blue, Richard

Richard Blue (1842-1921) was born in Ohio and came to Bloomington at age 9 with Judge Rayburn a...

Biography

Dorothy Gage headstone

Gage, Dorothy Louise

The life of Dorothy Louise Gage, although brief, was certainly meaningful, leaving an impact th...

Biography

Portrait of Linus Graves, a middle-aged man wearing a white collared shirt, vest, and jacket, with full beard and large nose.

Graves, Linus

Linus Graves was born in Williamstown, Vermont on April 2, 1815 one of eleven children born to ...

Biography

Jones, Annie Ethel

Annie Ethel Jones (1899 – 1991) was a Black woman born and reared on a Mississippi farm, which ...

Biography

Jung, Jacob

Jacob Phillip Jung was born on February 9, 1850 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois to parents ...

Biography

King, Mary Reed

Mary (Reed) King (1842-1928) and Samuel Noble (1834-1913) were a force in the advancement of ag...

Biography

King, Samuel Noble

Samuel Noble (1834-1913) and Mary (Reed) King (1842-1928) were a force in the advancement of ag...

Biography

Mayes, John Jackson

John Jackson Mayes, Jr., (1851 -1918) known as J.J., was engaged in the photography business, a...

Biography

Rhymer, Paul

Paul Rhymer (1905-1964) a Bloomington High School graduate, was considered one of the great wri...

Biography

Finding Aids

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Bloomington Cemetery Association

The Bloomington Cemetery Association (BCA) was a private stock corporation that operated the Bl...

Finding Aid

Gravestone Photographs

This photograph collection consists of four box books of gravestone photographs and associated ...

Finding Aid

Publications

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Central Illinois obituaries, 1871-1880

Publication

Soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 1812 buried in McLean County, Illinois

Publication

Some old gravestone inscriptions in Bloomington and Randolph townships. McLean County, Illinois

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Speakers Bureau

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A History of the Evergreen Cemetery Walk

Speakers Bureau

Dine with the Dead: Cemetery Customs and Traditions of Days Gone By

Speakers Bureau

Mourning in McLean: The Story of Death, Grieving, and Funerary Customs in McLean County

Speakers Bureau

Step On Tour of Evergreen Memorial Cemetery

Speakers Bureau

The Monuments Speak: The Art and Architecture of Evergreen Memorial Cemetery

Speakers Bureau

Videos

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Lunch & Learn: Introducing the 2023 Evergreen Cemetery Walk

Video

Mourning in McLean

Video